CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Robert M. Carter
Emeritus Fellow
Institute for Public Affairs
401 Collins St., Melbourne
Date and place of birth
March 9, 1942; Reading, England
Citizenship
Dual: Australian, British
Address
Contact Information
10 Jacaranda Crescent
Annandale
Townsville
Qld. 4814
Phone (home): +61-(07)-4775-1268
Mobile: +61-(0)419-701-139
grlmc42@gmail.com
http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/new_page_3.htm
Family
Wife: Anne Catherine Carter
Children: Susan (born 1969), Jeremy (born 1972)
Secondary School Education
1956-59, Lindisfarne College, Hastings, N.Z. (Dux & Herrick Cup)
Sports colours: cricket (Captain, First XI), rugby, hockey, tennis, shooting)
1952-55, Roysses Grammar School, Abingdon, U.K
Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Palaeontology, 1968.
B.Sc. (Hons. First Class), University of Otago, Geology, 1963.
Academic and Other Positions Held
2010-2013, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne
2000-2005, Adjunct Research Professor, Univ. of Adelaide, Geology & Geophysics
1999-2013, Adjunct Research Professor, James Cook University
1981-1999, Professor & Head of Department of Geology, James Cook University.
1974, Nuffield Fellow, University of Oxford
1968-1980, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Geology
1963, Assistant Lecturer, University of Otago, Geology
Professional Expertise and Research
Bob Carter was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ)
between 1968 and 1981, a Professor at James Cook University (Queensland) between 1981
and 2013 (adjunct 1999-2013) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide (South
Australia) between 2001 and 2005.
Bob is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist of more than forty years
professional experience, and holds degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and
the University of Cambridge (England). He has held tenured academic staff positions at the
University of Otago and James Cook University (Townsville), where he was Professor and
Head of School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and 1999.
Bob Carter's continuing research on climate change, sea-level change and stratigraphy is
based on field studies of Cenozoic sediments (last 65 million years) from the Southwest
Pacific region, especially the Great Barrier Reef and New Zealand, and includes the analysis
of marine sediment cores collected during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 181
(Southwest Pacific Palaeo-oceanographic Gateways) and IODP Expedition 317 (Canterbury
Basin, Sea-levels), both in the South Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand. He is also a former
Director of the Australian Office for the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), the premier, worldbest-practice research program for environmental and earth sciences.
Bob also has wide experience in management and research administration, including service
as Chair of the Earth Sciences Discipline Panel of the Australian Research Council, Chair of
the Australian Marine Science and Technologies Committee, Director of the Australian
Office of the Ocean Drilling Program, Co-Chief Scientist on ODP Leg 181 (Southwest
Pacific Gateways) and a senior scientist on IODP Expedition 317 (Canterbury Basin Sealevels).
Bob’s publication list of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and books is appended below,
covering papers in international science journals on topics which include taxonomic
palaeontology, palaeoecology, the growth and form of the molluscan shell, New Zealand and
Pacific geology, stratigraphic classification, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, the Great
Barrier Reef, Quaternary geology, and sea-level and climate change. A cumulatively updating
copy of this list can be accessed at http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/new_page_4.htm.
Other Expertise
Bob Carter contributes regularly to public education, debate and policy formulation on
scientific issues, which are related to his areas of knowledge. He also offers lecture or
workshop presentations by arrangement, and has participated in invited lectures or tours in
Australia, N.Z., Hong Kong, China, U.S.A., Canada, Scandinavia, Nederlands, Germany,
Austria, Czech Republic, Serbia and the U.K. His public commentaries draw on both his
personal publication record (above) and his knowledge of a wide range of scientific literature.
Bob is an established opinion writer on contemporary environmental issues for newspapers
such as The Australian, The Brisbane Courier Mail, The Melbourne Age, The Sydney
Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, the U.K. Sunday Telegraph and the U.S.
Washington Times, and makes regular appearances on radio and television such as BBC
Radio 4, BBC World News, ABC Science Show; Michael Duffy, Philip Adams, John Laws,
Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, Glen Beck and Leighton Smith radio shows.
Bob has acted as an expert witness on climate change for the U.S. Senate Committee of
Environment and Public Works (Washington, 2006), before Australian and N.Z.
parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and at a meeting in parliament house,
Stockholm. He was a primary science expert witness for the U.K. High Court (London, 2007;
Dimmock v. the Queen) the judgement from which identified nine major scientific errors in
Mr. Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth. He also acted as expert witness in the Hayes
Windfarm Environment Court case in New Zealand.
Bob has held positions on the Council of the Australian Mineral Foundation (Adelaide) and
as Director for the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville (1997-1999),
Adjudicator for the Eureka Prize in Environmental Journalism (2005) and Director of the
Australian Environment Foundation (2011-2015).
Bob Carter’s recent public articles and presentations on environmental science issues number
more than 300 and can be accessed through his website, at:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/new_page_1.htm.
Relevance to Society
Bob Carter's career research studies are relevant to societal discussions of environmental
issues, and especially to the topics of "global warming" and the “health of the Great Barrier
Reef”.
His more general stratigraphic work contributes towards the research base which underpins
the exploration for and development of sedimentary mineral deposits, including the important
energy resources of coal, oil, gas and uranium.
Disclaimer
Bob Carter's research career has been supported by grants from competitive public research
agencies, including especially the Australian Research Council and the International Ocean
Drilling Program. He has received no research funding from special interest organizations
such as environmental groups, energy companies or government departments.
Selected Professional Attainments
2014, Speaker, Heartland-9 International Climate Conference, Las Vegas
2013-14, Co-lead Editor, Climate Change Reconsidered (NIPCC reports 1&2)
2013, Panellist, How the Light Gets In festival, Hay-on-Wye, UK
2013, Chinese translation of NIPCC report, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
2011- Director, Australian Environment Foundation, Melbourne
2012, Plenary speaker, Heartland-7 International Climate Conference, Chicago
2011, Participant, China-Australia Congdu Summit, Guangzhou, Guandong
2010, Speaker, EIKE Climate & Energy Conference, Berlin
2010, Plenary speaker, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, Hong Kong
2009, Proponent and shipboard participant, IODP Expedition 317, New Zealand
2009, Expert witness, CPRS bill, Parliament House, Canberra
2009, Expert witness, ETS bill, Parliament House, Wellington
2009, Invited participant, ETS briefings, Parliament House Oslo, Stockholm
2008, Plenary Speaker, Heartland 6th Int. Climate Change Conference, Chicago
2008, Expert witness, Hayes Windfarm Proposal, NZ Environment Court, Cromwell
2008, Co-convenor, Solar Influence on Climate Change; 33rd IGC, Oslo
2007, Expert witness on climate change, U.K. High Court, London
2006, Expert witness on climate change, U.S. Senate Committee (EPW)
2005, Adjudicator, Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism
2005, Outstanding Career Award, Geological Society of N.Z. (50th Anniversary)
1998, Co-Chief Scientist, IODP Leg 181, Southwest Pacific Gateways
1998, Special Investigator Award, Australian Research Council
1997-99, Director, Australian Festival of Chamber Music
1997, Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand
1997, Vice-President, Federation of Australian Scientific & Technological Societies
1997, Member, Operations Committee, International Ocean Drilling Program
1996, Councillor, Australian Research Council
1996, Acting Chair, Planning Committee, International Ocean Drilling Program
1996, Chair, Australian Marine Science & Technologies Council
1997, NSERC review, Directions for Marine Science in Canada, St John's, Canada
1996, Australian Marine Sciences Assn., Review of Ocean Policy (AGC nominee)
1996, Plenary Speaker, Geological Society of New Zealand, Dunedin meeting
1995, Plenary Speaker, Geologische Vereinigung, 85th Ann. Meeting, Bremen, GDR
1995-97, Director, Australian IODP Secretariat, James Cook University
1995, Plenary Speaker, 5th Palaeoceanography Conference, Halifax
1994, Visiting Experts Program, Carrington Polytechnic, Auckland
1992-95, Member, Ocean History Panel, International Ocean Drilling Program
1994, FRST Committee of Review, Basin Studies, N.Z. Inst. Geol. & Nuclear Sci.
1993-94, Member SCOR Working Group 100 (IMAGES)
1993, Plenary Speaker, Geological Society of New Zealand, Hamilton meeting
1992-95, Chair, Earth Science & Engineering Panel, Australian Research Council
1992, Bennison Distinguished Overseas Lecturer, Amer. Assn. Petroleum Geologists
1991, Plenary Speaker, Geological Society of London, Sea-level Meeting, London
1991, Committee of Review, Geology-Geography Dept., Wollongong University
1990-91, Chair, ARC Review of Australian Geoscience Research, "Towards 2005"
1989-90, Australian Council, International Ocean Drilling Program
1989, Chair, ARC National Priority Panel in Marine Science
1989, Founding Director, Key Centre for Economic Geology
1988-90, Member, Sea-level Working Group, Int. Ocean Drilling Program
1988, DEET Review, Curtin University Key Centre in Resource Exploration
1986-90, Convenor, Australian Geoscience Awareness Programme (GAP)
1985-88, Chair, Australian National Committee on Geology (Australian Acad. Sci.)
1985-87, Member, Great Barrier Reef Crown of Thorns Advisory Committee
1985-87, President, Australian Council of Chairmen of Earth Science Departments
1984-88, Councillor, Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide
1983, Committee of Review, Geology Department, Melbourne University
1983, Committee of Review, Biological Sciences, James Cook University
1982-90, Founding Director, Economic Geology Research Unit, James Cook Univ.
1975, Hochstetter Lecturer, Geological Society of New Zealand
1974, Nuffield Travelling Fellowship, Nuffield Foundation, University of Oxford
1972-74, Vice-President, IUGS Subcommission on the Polarity Time Scale
1964-67, Commonwealth Scholarship, British Council, University of Cambridge
1962-63, President, Science Students Association, Otago University, Dunedin
1963, Senior University Scholar, University of Otago
Science Expeditions and Cruises
2010, Scientist, JOIDES Resolution, IODP Expedition 317, SW Pacific Sea-levels
2001, Scientist, Tangaroa Cruise 204, Eastern North Island, New Zealand
1998, Co-chief Scientist, JOIDES Resolution, IODP Leg 181, SW Pacific Gateways
1996, Visitor, Cape Roberts Drilling Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica
1996, Scientist, Tangaroa Cruise 3034, Chatham Rise-Campbell Plateau, SW Pacific
1993, Scientist, Queensland Museum Pandora expedition, northern Great Barrier Reef
1992, Scientist, Lauryentev Cruise, Hikurangi Plateau, eastern New Zealand
1990, Co-chief Scientist, Rapuhia Cruise 2040, Bounty Fan, S.W. Pacific
1989, Chief Scientist, Franklin Cruise 5/89, Queensland Trough
1988, Dep.-Chief Scientist, Rapuhia Cruise 2023, Bounty Channel, S.W. Pacific
1986, Scientist, Farnella, USGS GLORIA survey F5-86-HW, Hawaii, central Pacific
1981-95, Leader, many GBR shelf and reef cruises ex-Townsville, James Kirby
1979, Scientist, Tangaroa Cruise 1108, Conway Trough
1977, Chief Scientist, Tangaroa Cruise 1063, Otago shelf
1974, Leader, Otago University, Munida, Southwest Fiordland Expedition
1971, Expeditioner, Cook Bicentenary Fiordland Expedition
1963, Expeditioner, Otago University Pitcairn Island Expedition
1962, Leader, Otago University Science Students Assoc., Lake Thomson Expedition
One-time Learned Society
Memberships
American Association for Advancement of Science
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
American Geophysical Union
Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (Fellow)
Australian Marine Sciences Association
Australian Quaternary Science Association
European Union of Geological Sciences
Geological Society of America
Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of New Zealand
International Association of Sedimentologists
Royal Society of New Zealand (Honorary Fellow)
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
Editorial Boards
Geo-Marine Letters (1986-2013)
N.Z. Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1996-2005)
International Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 181 Publications (1998-2004)
Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change (2009-2013)
Marine Geology (Special Issue on Southwest Pacific Gateways)
Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue on Quaternary Sequence Stratigraphy)
Current Advisory Positions
Chief Scientific Advisor, International Climate Science Coalition (Ottawa)
Member, Advisory Council, Global Warming Policy Foundation (London)
Director, Australian Environment Foundation (Melbourne)
Scientific Advisor, Institute of Public Affairs (Melbourne)
Scientific Advisor, Science & Public Policy Institute (Washington)
Executive Board Member, N.Z. Climate Science Coalition (Auckland)
Professional Publications
(in reverse date order)
Yan, H, Wei, W., Soon, W., An, Z., Zhoe, W., Liu, Z., Wang, Y. & Carter, R.M. 2015.
Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone over the western Pacific during the Little
Ice Age. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2375.
Carter, R.M. 2014. Global warming: the scientific context of the policy debate. In:
Moran, A. (ed.), Climate change: the facts, Institute of Public Arrairs, Melbourne,
Chapter 5, 67-82.
Carter, R.M., de Lange, W., Hansen, J.M., Humlum, O., Idso, C., Kear, D., Legates, D.,
Morner, N.A., Ollier, C., Singer, F. & Soon, W. 2014. Commentary and analysis on the
Whitehead & Associates 2014 NSW sea-level report. NIPCC Policy Brief, 44 pp.
Idso, C.D., Idso, S.D., Carter, R.M. & Singer, S.F. 2014. Climate Change Reconsidered
II: Biological Impacts, 1000+ pp. Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on
Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.
Idso, C.D., Idso, S.D., Carter, R.M. & Singer, S.F. 2014. Climate Change Reconsidered
II: Biological Impacts, Summary for Policymakers, 20 pp. Report of the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland
Institute, Chicago, IL.
Soon, W., Velasco Herrara, V.M., Selveraj, K., Traversi, R., Usoskin, I., Chen, C-T.A.,
Lou, J-Y., Kao, S-J., Carter, R.M., Pipin, V., Severi, M. & Becagli, S. 2014. A review of
Holocene-linked climatic variation on centennial to millenial time scales: Physical
processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform
algorithm. Earth Science Reviews 134, 1-15. Doi 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.03.003.
Idso, C.D., Carter, R.M., Singer, F. & Soon, W. 2013. Scientific Critique of IPCC’s 2013
“Summary for Policymakers”. Policy Brief (October, 2013), The Heartland Institute,
Chicago, IL.
Idso, C.D., Carter, R.M. & Singer, S.F. 2013. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical
Science, 1000+ pp. The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.
Idso, C.D., Carter, R.M. & Singer, S.F. 2013. Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical
Science, Summary for Policymakers, 20 pp. Report of the Nongovernmental
International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), The Heartland Institute, Chicago, IL.
Carter, R.M., Spooner, J., Kininmonth, W.R., Field, M., Franks, S. & Leyland, B. 2013.
Taxing Air. Facts & Fallacies about Climate Change. Kelpie Press, Melbourne, 267 pp.
Idso, C.D., Singer, S.F. & Carter, R.M. 2011. Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011
Interim Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).
The Heartland Institute, Chicago IL.
Briggs, W.M., Soon, W., Legates, D. & Carter, R.M. 2011. A vaccine against arrogance.
Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 2205-2206.
Carter, R.M. 2011. Ways to combat green totalitarianism over global warming. In:
Brodsky, Jiri (Ed.), Today’s World and Vaclav Klaus. Nakladatelestvi FRAGMENT, Prague,
pp. 27-35.
Carter, R.M. 2010. Climate: the Counter Consensus. Stacey International, London, 315
pp.
Land, M, Wust, R.A.J. & Carter, R.M. 2010. Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate in the
Southwest Pacific as reflected in clay mineralogy and particle size at ODP Site 1119, SE
New Zealand. Marine Geology, v.274(1-4): 165-176.
McLean, J.D., de Freitas, C.R. & Carter, R.M. 2010. Censorship at AGU: scientists denied
the right of reply. SPPI Original Paper (March 30, 2010).
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/censorship_at_agu.html.
McLean, J. D., de Freitas, C.R. & Carter, R.M. 2009b. Correction to ”Influence of the
Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature”. Journal of Geophysical Research
v.114, D20101, doi:10.1029/2009JD013006. ISSN 0148-0227.
McLean, J., de Freitas, C. & Carter, R.M. 2009a. Influence of Southern Oscillation on
tropospheric temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research v.114, D14104,
doi:10.1029/2008JD011637.
Carter, R.M., Larcombe, P., Dye, J.E., Gagan, M.K. & Johnson, D.P. 2009. Long-shelf
sediment transport and storm-bed formation by Cyclone Winifred, central Great Barrier
Reef, Australia. Marine Geology, doi:10:1016/jmargeo.2009.08.009.
Carter, R.M. 2008. Knock, knock: where is the evidence for dangerous human-caused
global warming? Economic Analysis & Policy (Journal of the Economic Society of Australia
- Queensland) v.32(2): 107-202.
Carter, R.M. 2007. Stratigraphy into the 21st Century. Stratigraphy, v.4: 187-193.
Carter, R.M., de Freitas, C.R., Goklany, I.M., Holland, D. & Lindzen, R.S. 2007. Climate
change. Climate science and the Stern Review. World Economics, v.8: 161-182.
Holland, D., Carter, R.M., de Freitas, C.R., Goklany, I.M. & Lindzen, R.S. 2007. Climate
change. Response to Simmonds and Steffen. World Economics, v.8: 143-151.
Carter, R.M. 2007. The myth of dangerous human-caused climate change. Australasian
Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, New Leaders Conference, Brisbane, May 2-3 2007,
Conference Proceedings p. 61-74.
Carter, R.M. 2007. The role of intermediate-depth currents in continental shelf-slope
accretion: Canterbury Drifts, Southwest Pacific Ocean. In: VIANA, A. R. & REBESCO, M.
(eds) Economic and Palaeoceanographic Significance of Contourite Deposits. Geological
Society, London, Special Publications 276: 129–154.
Carter, R.M., de Freitas, C.R., Goklany, I.M., Holland, D. & Lindzen, R.S. 2006. The Stern
Review: A Dual Critique. Part I: The Science. World Economics, v.7: 165-198.
Carter, R.M. 2006. Great news for the Great Barrier Reef: Tully River water quality.
Energy & Environment, v.17(4): 527-548.
James, N.P., Bone, Y., Carter, R.M. & Murray-Wallace, C.V. 2006. Origin of the Late
Neogene Roe Plains and their calcarenite veneer: implications for sedimentology &
tectonics in the Great Australian Bight. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.53: 407419.
Holland, M.E., Schultheiss, P.J., Carter, R.M., Roberts, J.A. & Francis, T.J.G. 2005.
IODP's untapped wealth:multi-parameter logging of legacy core. Scientific Drilling v.1:
50-51.
Carter, R.M. 2005. The status of local "stages" in the New Zealand Plio-Pleistocene. New
Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, v.48: 623-639.
Carter, R.M. 2005. A New Zealand climatic template back to c. 3.9 Ma: ODP Site 1119,
Canterbury Bight, south-west Pacific Ocean, and its relationship to onland successions.
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.35: 9-42.
Abbott, S.T., Naish, T.R., Carter, R.M. & Pillans, B.J. 2005. Sequence Stratigraphy of the
Nukumaruan stratotype (Pliocene-Pleistocene, c. 2.08-1.63 Ma), Wanganui Basin, New
Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.35: 123-150.
Naish, T.R., Field, B.D., Zhu, H., Melhuish, A., Carter, R.M., Abbott, S.T., Edwards, S.,
Alloway, B.V., Wilson, G.S., Niessen, F., Barker, A., Browne, G.H. & Maslen, G. 2005.
Integrated outcrop, drill core, borehole and seismic stratigraphic architecture of a
cyclothemic, shallow-marine depositional system, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Journal
of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.35: 91-122.
Carter, R.M., Fulthorpe, C.S. & Lu, H. 2004. Canterbury Drifts at Ocean Drilling Program
Site 1119: climatic modulation of southwest Pacific intermediate water flows since 3.9
Ma. Geology, v.32: 1005-1008.
Carter, R.M. & Gammon, P. 2004. New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale
southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science, v.304: 1659-1662.
Richter, C., McCave, I.N., Carter, R.M., Carter L. et al. 2004. Southwest Pacific
Gateways, Sites 1119-1125. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports
181 plus CD-ROM.
Carter, R.M., McCave, I.N., Richter, C. & Carter, L. 2004. Fronts, flows, drifts, volcanoes,
and the evolution of the southwestern gateway to the Pacific Ocean. In: Richter, C.,
McCave, I.N., Carter, R.M., Carter, L. et al. 2004, Southwest Pacific Gateways, Sites
1119-1125. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Reports 181, pp. 1-111.
McCave, I.N., Carter, L., Carter, R.M. & Hayward, B.W. (eds.) Cenozoic Evolution of the
SW Pacific Gateway, ODP Leg 181. Marine Geology (Special Issue), v.205: 1-262.
McCave, I.N., Carter, L., Carter, R.M. & Hayward, B.W. 2004, Cenozoic stratigraphic
evolution of the SW Pacific Gateway: introduction. Marine Geology (Special Issue),
v.205: 1-7.
Carter, L., Carter, R.M. & McCave, I. 2004. Evolution of the sedimentary system beneath
the deep Pacific inflow off eastern New Zealand. Marine Geology (Special Issue), v.205:
9-27.
Carter, R.M., Gammon, P.R. & Millwood, L. 2004. ODP Site 1119, Canterbury Bight,
southwest Pacific Ocean. I. Time-scale and paleoceanography of the Subtropical
Convergence (STC) since 0.38 Ma. Marine Geology (Special Issue), v.205: 29-58.
Graham, I.J., Carter, R.M., Ditchburn, R.G. & Zondervan, A. 2004. Chronostratigraphy of
ODP 181, Site 1121 (foot of Campbell Plateau, Southwest Pacific Ocean) using 10Be/9Be
dating of sediment and entrapped ferromanganese nodules. Marine Geology (Special
Issue), v.205: 227-247.
Larcombe, P. & Carter, R.M. 2004. Cyclone pumping, sediment partitioning and the
development of the Great Barrier Reef shelf system: a review. Quaternary Science
Reviews, v.23: 107-135.
Carter, R.M., Abbott, S.T., Graham, I.J. & Naish, T.R. 2002. The middle Pleistocene
Merced-2 and -3 Sequences from Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Sedimentary Geology,
v.153: 23-51.
Dunbar, G.B., Dickens, G.R. & Carter, R.M. 2000. Sediment flux across the Great Barrier
Reef shelf to the Queensland Trough over the last 300 ky. Sedimentary Geology, v.133:
49-92.
Ward, I.A.K., Larcombe, P., Brinkman, R. & Carter, R.M. 1999. Sedimentary processes
and the Pandora wreck, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Field Archaeology, v.26:
41-53.
Carter, R.M., McCave, I.N., Richter, C. & Carter, L. et al. 1999. Southwest Pacific
Gateways, Sites 1119-1125. Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports 181,
pp.1-112 + CD-ROM.
Saul, G., Naish, T.R., Abbott, S.T. & Carter, R.M. 1999. Sedimentary Cyclicity in the
marine Plio-Pleistocene of Wanganui Basin (N.Z.): sequence stratigraphic motifs
characteristic of the last 2.5 Ma. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v.111: 524-537.
Carter, R.M. & Naish, T.R. (eds.) 1999. The high-resolution chronostratigraphic and
sequence stratigraphic record of the Plio-Pleistocene Wanganui Basin. New Zealand
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Folio 2.
Abbott, S.T. & Carter, R.M. 1999. Stratigraphy of the Castlecliffian type section: ten midPleistocene sequences from the Wanganui coast, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of
Geology & Geophysics, v.42: 91-111.
Carter, R.M., Abbott, S.T. & Naish, T.R. 1999. Plio-Pleistocene cyclothems from
Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: type locality for an astrochronologic time-scale, or
template for recognizing ancient glacio-eustasy? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London v.A357: 1861-1872.
CARTER, R.M. 1998 Two models: global sea-level change and sequence stratigraphic
architecture. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.) 1998 Sequence
Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue)
122: 23-36.
Carter, R.M., Fulthorpe, C.S. & Naish, T.R. 1998. Sequence concepts at seismic and
outcrop scale: the distinction between physical and conceptual stratigaphic surfaces. In:
Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.), Sequence Stratigraphy in the PlioPleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122: 165-179.
Carter, R.M. & Naish, T.R. 1998. A review of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand: global
reference section for shallow marine, Plio-Pleistocene (2.5-0 Ma) cyclostratigraphy. In:
Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.) 1998 Sequence Stratigraphy in the
Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue) 122: 37-52.
Orpin, A.R., Gammon, P.R., Naish, T.R. & Carter, R.M. 1998. Modern and ancient
Zygochlamys delicatula shellbeds in New Zealand, and their sequence stratigraphic
implications. In: Carter, R.M., Naish, T.R., Ito, M. & Pillans, B.J. (eds.), Sequence
Stratigraphy in the Plio-Pleistocene: an Evaluation. Sedimentary Geology (Special Issue)
122: 267-284.
Carter, R.M. & Naish, T.R. 1998. Have local Ages/Stages outlived their usefulness for the
New Zealand Plio-Pleistocene? New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, v.41: 271279.
Larcombe, P. & Carter, R.M. 1998. Sequence architecture during the Holocene
transgression: an example from the Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia. Sedimentary
Geology, v.117: 97-121.
Naish, T., Abbott, S.T., Alloway, B.V., Beu, A.G., Carter, R.M., Edwards, A.R., Journeaux,
T.J. Kamp, P.J.J., Pillans, B. J., Saul, G.S. & Woolfe, K.J. 1998. Astronomical calibration
of a southern hemisphere Plio-Pleistocene reference section, Wanganui Basin, New
Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews, v.17: 695-710.
Abbott, S.T. & Carter, R.M. 1997. Macrofossil associations from mid-Pleistocene
cyclothems, Castlecliff section, New Zealand: implications for sequence stratigraphy.
Palaios, v.12: 182-210.
Carter, L., Carter, R.M., McCave, I.N. & Gamble, J. 1996. Regional sediment recycling in
the abyssal Southwest Pacific Ocean. Geology, v.24: 735-738.
Carter, R.M. & Carter, L. 1996. The abyssal Bounty Fan and lower Bounty Channel:
evolution of a rifted-margin sedimentary system. Marine Geology, v.130: 182-202.
Carter, R.M., Carter, L. & McCave, I.N. 1996. Current controlled sediment deposition
from the shelf to the deep ocean: the Cenozoic evolution of circulation through the SW
Pacific gateway. Geologisches Rundschau, v.85: 438-451.
Fulthorpe, C.S.; Carter, R.M.; Miller, K.G. & Wilson, J. 1996. Marshall Paraconformity: a
mid-Oligocene record of inception of the Antarctic circumpolar current and coeval glacioeustatic lowstand. Marine & Petroleum Geology, v.13: 61-77.
Larcombe, P., Carter, R.M., Dye, J., Gagan, M.K. & Johnson, D.P. 1995. The nature of
the post-glacial sea-level rise, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia: new evidence for
episodic rise. Marine Geology, v.127: 1-44.
Abbott, S.T. & Carter, R.M. 1994. The sequence architecture of mid-Pleistocene (0.350.95 Ma) cyclothems from New Zealand: facies development during a period of known
orbital control on sea-level cyclicity. In: de Boer, P.L. & Smith, D.G. (eds.), "Orbital
Forcing and Cyclic Sequences". International Association of Sedimentologists Special
Publication 19: 367-394.
Beaman, R., Larcombe, P. & Carter, R.M. 1994. New evidence for the Holocene sea-level
high from the inner shelf, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v.A64: 881-885.
Carter, R.M., Carter, L. & Davy, B. 1994. Geologic and stratigraphic history of the Bounty
Trough, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Marine & Petroleum Geology, v.11: 79-93.
Haywick, D.W., Henderson, R.A. & Carter, R.M. 1992. Sedimentology of 40 000 year
Milankovitch-controlled cyclothems from central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Sedimentology, v.39: 675-696.
Carter, L. & Carter, R.M. 1993. Sedimentary evolution of the Bounty Trough: a
Cretaceous rift basin, southwestern Pacific Ocean. In: Ballance, P.F. (ed), South Pacific
Sedimentary Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 2 (Series Editor, K.J. Hsu),
Elsevier, 51-67.
Carter, R.M., Johnson, D.P.; Hooper, K. 1993. Episodic post-glacial sea-level rise and the
sedimentary evolution of a tropical continental embayment (Cleveland Bay, Great Barrier
Reef shelf, Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.40: 229-255.
Carter, R.M. & Carter, L. 1992. Seismic imaging of Pleistocene deep-sea cyclothems:
implications for sequence stratigraphy. Terra Nova, v.4: 682-692.
Carter, R.M., Abbott, S.T., Fulthorpe, C.S., Haywick, D.J. & Henderson, R.A. 1991.
Application of global sea-level and sequence stratigraphic models in southern
hemisphere Neogene strata from New Zealand. In: MacDonald, D.I.M. (ed.),
"Sedimentation, Tectonics and Eustasy", International Association of Sedimentologists
Special Publication #12: 41-65.
Fulthorpe, C.S. & Carter, R.M. 1991. Continental shelf progradation by sediment drift
accretion. Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v.103: 300-309.
Haywick, D.W., Lowe, D.A., Beu, A.G., Henderson, R.A. & Carter, R.M. 1991. PlioPleistocene (Nukumaruan) lithostratigraphy of The Tangoio block, and origin of
sedimentary cyclicity, central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of
Geology & Geophysics, v.34: 213-225
Carter, L. & Carter, R.M. 1990. Lacustrine sediment traps and their effect on continental
shelf sedimentation - South Island, New Zealand. GeoMarine Letters, v.10: 93-100.
Carter, L., Carter, R.M., Nelson, C.S., Fulthorpe, C.S. & Neil, H.L. 1990. Evolution of
Pliocene to Recent abyssal sediment waves on Bounty Channel levees, New Zealand.
Marine Geology, v.95: 97-109.
Fulthorpe, C.S. & Carter, R.M. 1989. Test of seismic sequence methodology on a
southern hemisphere passive margin: the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Marine &
Petroleum Geology, v.6: 348-359.
Abbott, S.T., Haywick, D.W., Carter, R.M. & Henderson, R.A. 1989. Facies signature of
late Neogene eustatic sea-level fluctuations exemplified in Plio-Pleistocene cyclothems,
North Island, New Zealand. 28th International Geological Congress, Washington (D.C.),
Abstracts, pp.1-2.
Gagan, M., Johnson, D.P. & Carter, R.M. 1988. The Cyclone Winifred storm bed, central
Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v.58: 845-856.
Carter, R.M. 1988. The nature and evolution of deep-sea channels. Basin Research, v.1:
41-54.
Carter, R.M. 1988. Plate boundary tectonics, global sea-level changes and the
development of the eastern South Island continental margin, New Zealand, southwest
Pacific. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v.5: 90-107.
Carter, R.M. 1988. Post-breakup stratigraphy (Cretaceous-Cainozoic Kaikoura Synthem)
of the east Otago continental shelf and slope, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand
Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.31(4): 405-429.
Carter, L. & Carter, R.M. 1988 Late Quaternary development of left-bank-dominant
levees in the Bounty Trough, New Zealand. Marine Geology, v.78: 185-197.
Carter, R.M. & Carter, L. 1987. The Bounty Channel System: a 55-million-year-old
sediment conduit to the deep sea, southwest Pacific. Geo-Marine Letters, v.7: 183-190.
Johnson, D.P. & Carter, R.M. 1987. Sedimentary framework of mainland fringing reef
development, Cape Tribulation area. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Technical
Memorandum, TM-14, p.37.
Carter, R.M. & Johnson, D.P. 1986. Sea-level controls on the post-glacial development of
the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Marine Geology, v.71: 137-164.
Carter, R.M., Carter, L. & Johnson, D.P. 1986. Submergent shorelines in the SW Pacific:
evidence for an episodic post-glacial transgression. Sedimentology, v.33: 629-649.
Carter, R.M. & CARTER, L. 1986. Holocene evolution of the nearshore sand wedge, south
Otago continental shelf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics,
v.29: 413-424.
Carter, R.M. 1985. The mid-Oligocene Marshall Paraconformity, New Zealand:
coincidence with global eustatic sea-level fall or rise? Journal of Geology, v.93: 359-371.
Carter, R.M., Carter, L., Williams, J.J. & Landis, C.A. 1985. Modern and relict
sedimentation on the south Otago continental shelf, New Zealand. New Zealand
Oceanographic Institute Memoir, v.93: 43 pp.
Griggs, G.B.; Carter, L., Kennett, J.P. & Carter, R.M. 1983 Late Quaternary marine
stratigraphy southeast of New Zealand. Geological Society of America, Bulletin 94: 791797.
Norris, R.J.& Carter, R.M. 1982. Fault-bounded blocks and their role in localising
sedimentation and deformation adjacent to the Alpine Fault, southern New Zealand.
Tectonophysics, v.87: 11-23.
Carter, R.M. & Carter, L. 1982. The Motunau Fault and other structures at the southern
edge of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary, offshore Marlborough. Tectonophysics,
v.88: 133-159.
Carter, L., Carter, R.M. & Griggs, G.B. 1982. Sedimentation in the Conway Trough, a
deep near-shore basin at the junction of the Alpine transform and Hikurangi subduction
plate boundary, New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.29: 475-497.
Carter, R.M., Lindqvist, J.K. & Norris, R.J. 1982. Oligocene unconformities and nodular
phosphate-hardground horizons in western Southland and northern West Coast. Journal
of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.12: 11-46.
Norris, R.J. & Carter, R.M. 1980. Offshore sedimentary basins at the southern end of the
Alpine Fault, New Zealand. International Association of Sedimentologists, Special
Publication, v.4: 237-265.
Carter, R.M. 1979. Trench-slope channels from the New Zealand Jurassic: the Otekura
Formation, Sandy Bay, south Otago. Sedimentology, v.26: 475-496.
Norris, R.J., Carter, R.M. & Turnbull, I.M. 1978. Cainozoic sedimentation in basins
adjacent to a major continental transform boundary in southern New Zealand. Journal of
the Geological Society of London, v.135: 191-205.
Carter, R.M., Hicks, M.D., Norris, R.J. & Turnbull, I.M. 1978. Sedimentation patterns in
an ancient arc-trench-ocean basin complex: Carboniferous to Jurassic Rangitata Orogen,
New Zealand. In: Stanley, D.J.; Kelling, G. (eds.), Sedimentation in Submarine Canyons,
Fans and Trenches, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, chapter 23:
340-361.
Carter, R.M. & Norris, R.J. 1977. Redeposited conglomerates in a Miocene flysch
sequence at Blackmount, western Southland, New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology, v.18:
289-319.
Carter, R.M. & Lindqvist, J.K. 1977. Balleny Group, Chalky Island, southern New
Zealand: an inferred Oligocene submarine canyon and fan complex. Pacific Geology,
v.12: 1-46.
Crooks, I. & Carter, R.M. 1976. Stratigraphy of Maruia and Matiri Formations in their
type section (Trent Stream, Matiri River, Murchison). Journal of the Royal Society of New
Zealand, v.6: 459-487.
Carter, R.M. & Norris, R.J. 1976. Cainozoic history of southern New Zealand: an accord
between geological observations and plate tectonic predictions. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, v.31: 85-94.
Carter, R.M. 1975. Mass-emplaced sand-fingers at Mararoa construction site, southern
New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.22: 275-288.
Carter, R.M. & Lindqvist, J.K. 1975. Sealers Bay submarine fan complex, Oligocene,
southern New Zealand. Sedimentology, v.22: 465-483.
Carter, R.M. 1975. A discussion and classification of subaqueous mass-transport with
particular application to grain-flow, slurry-flow and fluxoturbidites. Earth Science
Reviews, v.11: 145-177.
Turnbull, I.M., Barry, J.M., Carter, R.M. & Norris, R.J. 1975. The Bobs Cove Beds and
their relationship to the Moonlight Fault Zone. Journal of the Royal Society of New
Zealand, v.5: 355-394.
Carter, R.M., Landis, C.A., Norris, R.J. & Bishop, D.G. 1974. Suggestions towards a high-
level nomenclature for New Zealand rocks. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
v.4: 5-18.
Carter, R.M. 1974. Geographies of the past – Part I. New Zealand's Nature Heritage, v.1:
102-107.
Carter, R.M. 1974. Geographies of the past – Part II. New Zealand's Nature Heritage,
v.1: 129-135.
Carter, R.M. 1974. The moulding of the landscape – Part I. New Zealand's Nature
Heritage, v.1: 191-200.
Carter, R.M. 1974. The moulding of the landscape – Part II. New Zealand's Nature
Heritage, v.1: 211-217.
Carter, R.M. 1974. A New Zealand case-study of the need for local time-scales. Letheia,
v.7: 181-202.
Duncan, R.A., McDougall, I., Carter, R.M. & Coombs, D.S. 1974. Pitcairn Island - another
Pacific hot spot? Nature, v.251: 679-682.
Carter, R.M. 1972. Wanganui strata of Komako District, Pohangina Valley, Ruahine
Range, Manawatu. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, v.2: 293-324.
Carter, R.M. 1972. Adaptations of British Chalk Bivalvia. Journal of Paleontology, v.46:
325-340.
Carter, R.M. & Landis, C.A. 1972. Correlative Oligocene unconformities in southern
Australasia. Nature (Physical Science), v.237: 12-13.
Carter, R.M. 1970. A proposal for the subdivision of Tertiary time in New Zealand. New
Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v.13: 350-363.
Carter, R.M. 1968. On the biology and palaeontology of some predators of bivalved
mollusca. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, v.4: 29-65.
Carter, R.M. 1968. Functional studies on the Cretaceous oyster Arctostrea.
Palaeontology, v.11: 458-485.
Carter, R.M. 1967. The geology of Pitcairn Island, south Pacific Ocean. Bernice P. Bishop
Museum, Bulletin, v.231: 38 pp.
Carter, R.M. 1967. On the nature and definition of the lunule, escutcheon and corcelet in
the Bivalvia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London (now Journal of
Molluscan Studies) v. 37: 243-263.
Carter, R.M. 1967. On Lison's model of bivalve shell form, and its biological
interpretation. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London (now Journal of
Molluscan Studies), v.37: 265-278.
Wright, J.B. & Carter, R.M. 1965. Observations on the geology of an area near lakes
Thomson and Hankinson, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics,
v.8: 85-103. DOI:10.1080/00288306.1965.10422133.
ADDENDUM
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This splendid book should be required reading for anyone interested in the climate
debate – Dr. Phil Playford (Australia)
The range of scholarship that Professor Carter has mastered is astonishing. The
language is clear and simple, but never over-simplified – John Roskam (Australia)
An important book which convincingly refutes Al Gore’s declaration that ‘the time for
debate is over’ – President Vaclav Klaus (Czech Republic)
The best book on the science of human-induced global warming I have read” - Rodney
Hide (N.Z.)
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Taxing Air (2013)
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